“I love it when a plan comes together.” – John ‘Hannibal’ Smith – The A team

The plan came together when I received an email after subscribing to Troy Hunt’s “Have I been pwned” website notifying me that my account (email address and password) was part of the recently made available LinkedIn 2012 data breach.

This blog post is long over due. I felt with the almost daily announcements in the media of a company losing our sensitive data, such the highly publicized Heartbleed vulnerability, Target and E-Bay breach and multiple StubHub account violation, it was time to start the conversation about the need for strong, random, unique passwords.

One of the podcasts I find most valuable is Steve Gibson’s “Security Now” on the TWIT network. This week Steve covered a well know hacker’s posting which exposed a port vulnerability on several popular router.